Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107108608 ISBN 13: 9781107108608

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Global Securities Litigation and Enforcement provides a clear and exhaustive description of the national regime for the enforcement of securities legislation in cases of misrepresentation on financial markets. It covers 29 jurisdictions worldwide, some of them are important although their law is not well known. It will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of securities litigation, as well as for lawyers, policy-makers and regulators. The book also provides a comprehensive contribution debate on whether public or private enforcement is preferable in terms of development of securities markets. It will appeal to those interested in the legal origins theory and in comparative securities law, and shows that the classification of jurisdictions within legal families does not explain the differences in legal regimes. While US securities law often serves as a model for international convergence, some of its elements, such as securities class actions, have not been adopted worldwide.

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About the Authors

Pierre-Henri Conac is Professor of Financial Markets Law at the Université du Luxembourg. He is the author of 'The regulation of securities markets by the French Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and the US Securities and exchange commission (SEC)' which was awarded several prizes. His research areas deal principally with European, international and comparative securities law. He has been deeply involved in policy making in securities financial law at the European Union level. From 2011 to 2016 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), appointed him twice to its consultative Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG).

Martin Gelter is Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. Previously, he was an assistant professor in Law at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, University of Economics, a Terence M. Considine Fellow and a John M. Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna, and a Visiting Professor at University Paris-II (Panthéon-Assas). Martin holds degrees in law from the University of Vienna, in business administration from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.A. in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences from Columbia University. His scholarship focuses on comparative corporate law and governance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107108608
• ISBN 13: 9781107108608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1156
• Editor: Conac Pierre-Henri, Gelter Martin